Two-thirds of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians are refugees, descendants of those displaced and dispossessed after the founding of Israel in 1948. Many live among Gaza’s eight urban refugee camps — repeatedly devastated by war, built back up and devastated again.
Hadeel Qazzaz, 57, was born in the densely populated Shati refugee camp, which lies along the Mediterranean sea, and grew up in Khan Younis, in the south, near Gaza’s border with Egypt.
She now lives in Ramallah and works for an international humanitarian organization. Like many in Gaza, she is worried the enclave will not recover this time.